The CrankyPM recently posted a good little rant on personas. It’s drawn some interesting comments from both sides of the persona camp (PCamp? 🙂 ). BTW, I’m totally jealous as [ … ]
Category: Development
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 6)
In part 5, I showed how you can begin to decompose the areas where teams, particularly Product Management, provide key deliverables to other teams. Here’s what the heat map looked [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 4)
I received a number of requests for the “20 page document” mentioned in part 3 of this series, that defines the activities in the Product Management Deliverables grid. (see below) [ … ]
The End of Infrastructure
Yesterday Amazon announced Amazon SimpleDB, an on-demand database service similar to their EC2 and S3 services. With this final piece of the puzzle, Amazon has put an end to the [ … ]
Prioritizing Features does not equal Product Management
I came across this blog post today: How to Outsource Product Management to Customers. With a title like that, I had to read it. The post starts out well: Product [ … ]
Product Management and Open Source initiatives
Ran across this posting on the Infoworld site. Some interesting tidbits here. And if you think working as a PM in a commercial ISV is tough, it’s much more complex [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I talked about the lack of maturity in the product management role in technology companies. Computer technology and software themselves are rather immature, and [ … ]
Do Product Managers need Domain Knowledge?
As part of the second Pragamatic Marketing blogfest, I’m responding to Steve Johnson’s post: “Everyone needs to know what we do here“. In it, Steve writes about the need for [ … ]
Product Manager vs. Product Management (part 1)
I recently finished a series of articles on being a Great Product Manager. I want to switch gears a bit and spend some time talking about the function of Product [ … ]
Disneyland knows Product Management
By Saeed Khan A couple of years ago, when we were still living in the SF Bay Area, we took a family holiday down to Southern California. The objective was [ … ]